Post-anchor.



C. F. NOAKES.

POST ANCHOR.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 18, 1914 1, 1 33,496. Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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' joining ends 67 CLIFTON F. NOAKES, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

POST-ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

Application filed April 18, 1914. Serial No. 832,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLIFTON F. ,NoAKEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Post-Anchors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawm s.

Iy invention relates to that class of devices used for anchoring pole or post guy lines in the ground.

The object of my invention is to provide an anchor of this kind, practically automatic in operation, cheaply constructed, easily placed and efficient in the results for which it is designed.

I attain these. objects, as well as other advantages, by the construction, combination and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof.

Figure 1. is a side elevation of my device showing the same as first inserted in the ground. Fig. 2. is a similar view with the device in complete operation. Fig. 3. is a plan view of the device. Fig. 4. is a side elevation of the device as shown in the last figure. Fig. 5. is a bottom plan view of lower member or plate of the device.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the views.

The device is composed of two members or plates 6 and 7 of suitable length and width. Each of these plates has four openings quadrilaterally disposed near the joining ends 6 and 7. These openings are designated in pairs 8 and 9 and 10 and 11 in the members 7 and 6 respectively. The are straight, the opposite free ends may be rounded and beveled as shown, or of any other form adapted to the situation in which the device is used.

The member 6 has an integral curved seat 12 on its lower surface extending transversely of the member and between the openings 10 and 11. A wire or line 13 extends through one of the openings 9 for example, and thence through the oppositely disposed openings for each member quadrilaterallyand over the seat 12, until it emerges from the opposite opening of the pair 9 to that through which first introduced. The openings may be limited to two in each member but should be either two or four for practicable use. If only two they would be in the center line of the member.

In Figs. 1 and 2 a hole in the earth, inclined suitably from the surface, is illustrated. Near the hole is a post 14 in which is a notch 15. I

It will now be seen that when the device has the plates unfolded, they may be insorted in a hole arranged as shown. A little earth may then be cast upon the anchor and the wire pulled upward, which causes the plates to fold until they are extended longitudinally as shown in Fig. 2. and transversely of the hole into the earth. The hole is then filled and tamped which secures the anchor at a desired depth. The wire is then drawn around the post 14 and placed in the notch 15, where it is fastened by securing its free ends to each other.

It will be further seen that by reason of their straight ends the members 6 and 7 fold and unfold upon each other in sliding engagement and the wire passing over the seat 12 is not cut by the edges of the openings. It will also be seen that a short line, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. without the extension otherwise referred to, may be employed and the guy line secured to this or the ends of the short line may be secured to each other and the guy line secured to the loop thus formed.

I contend that my device is one in which plate hinges are successfully eliminated and, being adapted to insertion in a hole,

has superior advantages over devices for anchors which are driven into the ground, as with mine it is possible to character of the soil and to remove obstructions where it may be desired to use the anchor before the same is secured in place. My device can also be easily taken apart for shipping in convenient and cheap manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire to secure Letters Patent for is the following:

anchor comprising two flat plates of suitable length with two pairs of openings in and near the ends of each, said openings being spaced longitudinally of the plates and so arranged that the openings in one plate will register with those in the opposing plate when the plates lap each other, the

determine the plates being flat and straight on their laping' opposite the entering one and above the mg ends, their free ends being of suitable two plates when lapped, substantially as form, also a single guy line adapted to described.

thread downwardly through the registered CLIFTON F. NOAKES.

5 openings of both plates longitudinally there- Witnesses:

o thence transversely, thence again longi- CYRUS CARUzzI, tudinally and upwardly through the open- L. F. Boscow. 

